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2 Indian scientists selected for TWAS award
Delhi's SK Sarin and SR Wadia from Mumbai will get the Third World Academy of Sciences award.
Dr SK Sarin of GB Pant Hospital and SR Wadia from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, are among eight scientists being selected from the developing world, for the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) award(2004) in the field of medical science and physics.
Sarin, Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at GB pant Hospital has been selected for the prestigious award for throwing light on liver diseases such as portal hypertension, hepatitis and classification and management of gastric problems, a TWAS release said.
Alumni of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Sarin pioneered the use of alcohol to treat bleeding veins that is now widely used and accepted, it said.
A graduate from IIT Kanpur, Wadia has won the award for his contributions to non-pertubative quantum field theory and string theory, it said.
The physicist has developed the 'two-dimensional black hole solution' that gave impetus to exploring black hole in general relativity, it said.
TWAS has announced its 2004 prize winners in eight scientific fields, including the two from India. The prize carries a cash award of 10,000 US dollars, it said.
The prizes, founded by Nobel Prize winner physicist from Pakistan Abdus Salam in 1983, would be presented at the next General Meeting of TWAS that is scheduled to take place in Egypt in November next year, the release added.
